Re: archive corrupted !

Dan H wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:50:38 +0200
> Till Wimmer <g4-lisz@tonarchiv.ch> wrote:
>
>
>> Ah ok, i think this is a misunderstanding...
>>
>> The your archive file home-20-06-2007-05-55.tar.gz is corrupt, not
>> a single file in it.
>> "unexpected end of file" means that gzip cannot handle the zip file
>> correctly, not a file in it called "file". Gzip is a stream
>> compression, it doesn't know anything about the format of the file
>> it (de)compresses. Maybe you can extract parts of your file using
>> gzip -d -c | tar x.
>>
>
> Or maybe it is indeed a tar file but compressed with some other program (or not at all) and you're being misled by the .gz extension. Has happened to me, too.
>
> Use
>
> $ file home-20-06-2007-05-55.tar.gz
>
> to see what really is in this file, then proceed accordingly.
>
> --D.
>
>
>

I use tar (tar -cvvf) to compress this archive. It's not a file, it's an archive .tar.gz.

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